Name:: TianWei Title: Distinguished Professor

Email: wtian@cee.ecnu.edu.cn

Supervisor Type: Master's/Ph.D. Supervisor

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Research Directions

My research focuses on the cooperative control of unmanned systems swarms and system-of-systems simulation. The primary goal is to address key challenges such as trusted modeling, intelligent control, target recognition, and reliable communication for unmanned swarms. This involves constructing a simulation platform for unmanned swarm control and adversarial gaming to enable pure digital, hardware-in-the-loop, lightweight, and virtual-real integrated simulations for cross-domain unmanned systems. The platform is used to test the scalability, scenario complexity, and dynamic topology adaptability of unmanned swarms, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of system-of-systems simulations. Specific areas include:

Trusted Modeling: Developing high-fidelity digital models for simulation entities, sensors, environments, and information interaction in the context of cross-domain swarm cooperative control simulation.

Intelligent Control and Recognition: Researching intelligent task allocation and path planning based on deep learning and reinforcement learning, as well as target recognition through multi-source information fusion, all within cross-domain adversarial environments for unmanned swarms.

System-of-Systems Simulation and Evaluation: Constructing system-of-systems simulation scenarios by integrating unmanned swarms. This includes studying the intelligent generation of operational scenarios driven by large models, human-in-the-loop online editing techniques, and the effectiveness evaluation of system-of-systems simulations.

Robust Communication and Control: Building robust wireless ad-hoc networking communication links for unmanned swarms in outdoor environments, and investigating autonomous control strategies under communication-degraded conditions.

Education

Sep 2006–Dec 2011: Naval Aeronautical and Astronautical University, Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems

Sep 2003–Mar 2006: Naval Aeronautical and Astronautical University, M.S. in Communication and Information Systems

Sep 1999–Jun 2003: Naval Aeronautical and Astronautical University, B.S. in Aeronautical Radio Engineering

Work Experience

Dec 2023–Present: East China Normal University, College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Researcher / Doctoral Supervisor

Sep 2025–Present: Nanchang University, College of Advanced Manufacturing, Distinguished Professor

Feb 2019–Mar 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, co-hosted by AVIC Hongdu Aviation Industry Group and the College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Apr 2009–Dec 2022: Naval Aeronautical and Astronautical University, Engineer, Associate Professor

Academic Affiliations

Member, Carrier-based Aircraft Committee, Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Member, Intelligent Gaming and Wargaming Committee, Chinese Institute of Command and Control

Member, National Defense Big Data Committee, Chinese Association of Automation

Review Expert, Military Materiel Procurement

Review Expert, AVIC Tendering Procurement Network

Distinguished Expert, Gaoxin Rongchuang Development Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Expert, Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education for Hardware/Software Co-design Technology and Application

Honors and Awards

Received 12 scientific, technological, and teaching achievement awards at or above the provincial/ministerial level.

Received 2 Gold Awards and 1 Silver Award from the China Association of Inventions.

Major Achievements

With long-term engagement in research fields such as system-of-systems simulation, unmanned swarm control, and communication baseband signal processing, I have published over 50 academic papers, been granted 12 national invention patents, 2 national defense patents, and 4 software copyrights. I have also authored 2 monographs published by Tsinghua University Press and National Defense Industry Press. I have led or participated in over 30 research projects, including model development projects for the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission (CMC), projects from the "173 Program" of the Science and Technology Commission of the CMC, military scientific research and pre-research fund projects, a specially-funded project from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, projects from the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China, and various horizontal projects commissioned by military and defense industry units. The cumulative research funding for these projects exceeds 80 million RMB.